Pope Agapetus I

Pope Agapetus I (480-22 April 536) was Pope from 535 to 536, succeeding Pope John II and preceding Pope Silverius.

Biography
Agapetus was born in 480 AD to Gordianus, a priest slain during riots against Pope Symmachus in 502 AD. Agapetus became a deacon at least in 502 during the Laurentian Schism, and he was the last survivor of the Symmachian old guard by the time that he was elected as pope in 535 AD on Pope John II's death. He reigned for just one year, but he made the important decision of the Council of Carthage (which took place after the Byzantine Empire's reconquest of North Africa) in which Arians would be allowed lay communion, but they would not be allowed to join holy orders. Agapetus died in 536 in Constantinople.